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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

We can make a PPA for 10.4 in the next 24 hours - isn't that soon enough to
get Scratch in Lucid?

Amos

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Michael <Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Okay, they're telling me that even Multiverse packages would need to be
> reviewed and approved by this Thursday.  They're telling me I should
> make a PPA for 10.04, and try to get into the official repos for the
> next release.
>
> --
> Michael Hall
>
> http://www.qimo4kids.com
> "Linux for Kids"
>
>
> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 19:57 -0500, Amos Blanton wrote:
> > Wow, your timing is amazing. I've just been chatting with other
> > members of the team trying to figure out how to get into Lucid.
> >
> > We've just received a fix for some sound issues - so I'll push an
> > updated package on our PPA for Karmic soon. I guess I can do the same
> > for Lucid using pbuilder? Any tips on how to do this would be
> > appreciated - I'm still quite new to this world.
> >
> > Re: Universe. That could be tricky, because we have a somewhat unique
> > license. The Scratch application includes the ability to publish to
> > our website, which acts as a repository for Scratch projects. So we
> > release the source with some conditions - like that you can't modify
> > Scratch and push projects to our server, which could cause problems.
> > See "Scratch Source Code license" section here:
> > http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Source_Code
> >
> > So we were planning on going for multiverse.
> >
> > The final issue has to do with the fact that Scratch is based on
> > Squeak. We bundle our own Squeak virtual machine, because the
> > squeak-vm in the respositories is very old and has bugs when used to
> > run Scratch. If it was updated, we could do some work to depend on it
> > instead of including our own with our package (which isn't exactly
> > Lintian clean, but I've overridden that).
> >
> > Any thoughts / tips?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Amos
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Michael <Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >         Would it be possible for you to make a Scratch package for
> >         Ubuntu 10.04
> >         (Lucid)?  I have someone in the Edubuntu team willing to
> >         propose it for
> >         inclusion in the Universe repository for Lucid, but he needs a
> >         package
> >         before Thursday to get it approved for the package freeze
> >         (sorry for the
> >         rush, I just found your PPA today).
> >
> >         --
> >         Michael Hall
> >
> >         http://www.qimo4kids.com
> >         "Linux for Kids"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > _____
> > Amos
> >
>
>


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Amos